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class="geo">36.9889; -86.4543</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/History_museum" class="mw-redirect" title="History museum">History museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Art_museum" title="Art museum">Art museum</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wku.edu/kentuckymuseum">wku<wbr />.edu<wbr />/kentuckymuseum</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Kentucky Museum</b> is a history, arts, and culture museum located at 1444 Kentucky Street, <a href="/wiki/Bowling_Green,_Kentucky" title="Bowling Green, Kentucky">Bowling Green, Kentucky</a> on the campus of <a href="/wiki/Western_Kentucky_University" title="Western Kentucky University">Western Kentucky University</a>. It includes 80,000 square feet of exhibit space. </p><p>Archaeology, art, clothing and textiles, furniture, glassware ceramics, quilts, toys and games are all permanent exhibits at the museum. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kentucky_Museum&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Permanent_exhibits">Permanent exhibits</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kentucky_Museum&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Permanent exhibits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Permanent exhibits include the life of <a href="/wiki/Duncan_Hines" title="Duncan Hines">Duncan Hines</a>, a look at the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a> from a local perspective, a decorative arts gallery ranging from an <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egyptian</a> <a href="/wiki/Sarcophagus" title="Sarcophagus">sarcophagus</a> to 1970s <a href="/wiki/Macram%C3%A9" title="Macramé">macramé</a>, plus a gallery of regional <a href="/wiki/Quilts" class="mw-redirect" title="Quilts">quilts</a>. Changing galleries display a variety of themes, with community exhibitions, university-class designed and installed exhibitions, and some annual events, like the open art show. In addition, the 1815 Log House displays building techniques, furniture, tools, and clothing authentic to the 1810s time period. Hands-on programs for school classes and educational workshops for adults, lectures, and festivals are also regularly featured at the Kentucky Museum. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_exhibits">Former exhibits</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kentucky_Museum&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Former exhibits"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Former exhibits include the Instruments of American Excellence (IAE) (September 2012 – May 12, 2018). The IAE collected the ordinary means by which Americans have achieved extraordinary things: the actual tools or instruments that have helped change the course of our nation's history. The IAE included items that belonged luminaries such as <a href="/wiki/Madeleine_Albright" title="Madeleine Albright">Madeleine Albright</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Boone" title="Daniel Boone">Daniel Boone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Hawk" title="Tony Hawk">Tony Hawk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Ingram" title="Roger Ingram">Roger Ingram</a>, <a href="/wiki/Helen_Keller" title="Helen Keller">Helen Keller</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Liza_Minnelli" title="Liza Minnelli">Liza Minnelli</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kentucky_Museum&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wku.edu/kentuckymuseum">Kentucky Museum 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